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Best anchors for strongest backgame?

Posted By: ah_clem
Date: Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 3:25 p.m.

In Response To: Best anchors for strongest backgame? (sebalotek)

Walter Trice devotes a chapter to this question in Backgammon Bootcamp. An excellent book that I'd recommend highly.

The short answer is that there's no short answer. Some generalities:

Deep anchors (1-2, 1-3, 2-3) give you more chance to get a late shot, but they give you less opportunity to run off the gammon. High anchors (5-4 5-3) allow your opponent to dump checkers behind the anchors, so they don't produce as many late shots (you're more likely to get a shot in the bear-in rather than the bear off) , but they give you more opportunity to run off the gammon.

Consecutive anchors (1-2 2-3) block more rolls and generate more shots. Spaced anchors (5-1, 4-1) are usually weak for this reason.

Bottom line is that there's a lot more to back games than "where the anchor are" - the position of the other 26 checkers has a lot of impact so it's not really possible to rank the backgames in this manner.

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